Archie and Lili, in the future?

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Just musing, but once they get to adult age, would Harry's kids not be able to travel to the UK independently and meet up with their cousins/ rest of family if they want to? Do you think the UK cousins, and I'm including Zara's kids here, would want to meet them?

I suspect there would be an interest in a similar way to someone who discovers through DNA testing an unknown cousin/half sibling etc.

However they will probably have heard comments on the behaviour of their parents, whether from friends or family, and that will influence them in whether they decide to meet or not.

If you lived on a different continent to your dad’s cousins kids and never met them would you go seek them out? Weird

I suspect their parents will have made sure to make their opinions clear about the RF and the shabby way they were treated. It would depend on the characters of the children if they just accepted that or felt there were two sides to the story and want to know their family. On the other hand, the RF would have to be extremely cautious with them.

Surely it depends on what narrative Harry passes on to them. If they perceive themselves as outcast and unfairly slighted why would they?

Yes, I suppose it depends on what they're told by Harry, but would you want to slag off the uncle and grandad to the kids, or keep it neutral? And they'll probably be able to read stuff online soon enough. Totally different to normal families where rifts occur and sometimes the next generation are in the dark about what really happened.

Surely not because Mr Markle and his wife will have poisoned those kids against the rf and their relatives by then. They will twist the narrative like they always do and paint themselves as the victims.

It's quite a distant relationship. The Wales children are their cousins. Zara's children (and Eugenie, Beatrice, Peter) children are their second cousins. How many of us have close relationships with children of our parents' cousins? I don't even have a close relationship with my first cousins, mainly because they are all 15-20 years older than I am and we grew up in different places.

Also they will have cousins on their mother's side who are geographically much closer.

I don’t like my ILs but I never ever slagged them off to my dcs. After all, they are my dc’s biological family. However I suspect someone as bitter as H will put his own emotions and needs first.

Plenty of people seek out long lost relatives, it happens all the time. Nothing particularly weird about it at all.

Yes I get that it's often the case that you're not close to or interested in cousins/second cousins especially if they live elsewhere. But if you're related to a high profile family there may an element of curiosity.

I think as their extended family are the Royal family it will obviously make them curious. However, as H&M view the UK as a security risk and also they will know their grandmother Diana died at the hands of the press hounding her (which Harry feels the press do to his family here), I don’t think they would be curious enough to risk their lives to see them, which they will likely believe.

But they are all really close to eachother and seem to know eachother exceptionally well. Wolfie seems particularly comfortable with Zara and Mia. So for him to be well in there with the family says something. It’s not about the blood it’s how close you are. My 3rd cousins lived next door to my grandmother and I know them way better and we still meet up with adults. I have 1st cousins I have met a handful of times. Closeness has so much to do with age and proximity.

If you look at it this way, that generation of kids won’t have a family reunion as adults,ts and not invite Wolfie.

For Archie and Lili it’s a matter of what happens. If they never meet as children then all that shared experience just isn’t there. They really aren’t part of that connection to family and childhood. But if they meet as adults they would be able to build a worthwhile adult connection

Archie and Lili would,not be recognised without their parents.

Given they are Prince Archie and Princess Lilibet, I imagine they would be curious to meet Princes George and Louis and Princess Charlotte at least! And interested to see the Palaces and the like that they are connected too (although if they are as intellectually incurious as their Dad, maybe not the latter).

Would the RF trust A and L not to go home and blab to H and M all the family info they had found out. If things between W and H are still the same in the future I can't see them being allowed in even though it wouldn't be A and L's fault

It will be strange for them to attend American schools using very English titles.

At many posh private schools in England there will be various other kids with titles, so it’s more normalised.

Not sure how they will get on with cousins and second cousins though.

They have named their daughter Princess Lilibet Diana for a reason. $$$.
They're both going to be part of the Sussex Royal brand, rather like the Beckham children. So they'll have a quasi royal lifestyle.

Yes, I think it will depend on what they are told.

They bought a second home in Portugal where Princess Eugenie has a property so they might see those cousins regularly. If Eugenie has visitors like her sister’s family then that would be more cousins to tell them stories about life in the UK.

My dad is estranged from his siblings and has been since I was a teenager (I'm now mid 50s). I have zero interest in meeting my cousins, even though they live in my hometown. Not even curious. I suppose it will be harder for A and L to ignore George, Charlotte and Louis though, with appearances and media coverage.

If it was me in their shoes I think I would be trying to meet my cousins/ second cousins the minute I turned 18 especially if they are the BRF and one of them is the future King.
Why on earth wouldn’t I? I don’t have any beef with them and none of this is their or my fault. This is doubly so if they are also my only blood relatives.
Wether they would want to meet me is another matter but I think they would for the same reasons.
adult cousins can be friends in their own right, nothing to do with how their respective parents did or didn’t get on.

I thought they'd fallen out with Eugenie because of her friendship with Piers Morgan, and those photos of them after a lunch event hugging goodbye?

Harry and princess Euginie are very close still she visits them. It's likely that they will have a relationship

So he doesn't mind that she's a friend of Piers Morgan?

My prediction is that Harry will try to find a way to connect his children with the British establishment as they get older. He may hate the ‘grey suits’ but he will want them to have social connections and will feel guilty that he removed them from their connections to power and prestige. He will be very jealous watching his nieces and nephews grow up with access to this and will try to row back from the harm he has caused. Those titles were kept for a reason.

sashagabadon · Today 09:50

If it was me in their shoes I think I would be trying to meet my cousins/ second cousins the minute I turned 18 especially if they are the BRF and one of them is the future King.
Why on earth wouldn’t I? I don’t have any beef with them and none of this is their or my fault. This is doubly so if they are also my only blood relatives.
Wether they would want to meet me is another matter but I think they would for the same reasons.
adult cousins can be friends in their own right, nothing to do with how their respective parents did or didn’t get on.

Yes, @sashagabadon, this is what I was wondering. I think they could try and contact them on social media, with or without their parents knowing, rather than travelling to the UK